Full Coverage: Vanuatu

20.11.2003 The school enrolment and retention rate was low in the Tafea Province on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific Ocean. Children did not want to attend. Parents saw little value in sending them. But today, the struggle is to get the children to leave once the school day is over.

18.06.2003 Vanuatu is a small Pacific island. For a long time now, Radio Vanuatu has been playing an important role in communication, especially during national emergencies. The station is the only media in the island to reach out to all communities. It recently got two new consoles, which will help in uninterrupted broadcasting of its programmes across the country.

13.06.2001 Vanuatu officials and the Red Cross are racing to help about 1,600 people affected by a volcanic eruption on the remote Pacific island of Lopevi last week.

06.10.2000 The tiny South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has become the first country in the Asia Pacific region to attempt to base its entire economy on renewable energy.